'SON SAW BEATING'

Malcolm had the attack shortly before Rhod was about to start work as a labourer on a building site in Newport in preparation for the latest series off his Work Experience series which returns next month.

He said: “I was out on a Redrow site not far from the Royal Gwent Hospital when I go the call about Dad

“He ended up on a ward at Morriston Hospital next to the father of an old school friend of mine who'd also had a heart attack, bizarrely enough.

"So that was a tough shoot - three days laying bricks with that image of him laid up in the back of my mind the whole time.”

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Rhod is currently filming a new series of his award-winning show Work Experience

Rhod said he was able to go and see him as the rest of the family rallied around.

And he added: “He's doing great now, no doubt due to the excellent treatment he got from all the nurses and doctors who looked after him - a big thank you to them."